The World in Flames

Ranging across this great global conflict with a wide perspective, awesome mastery of the sources, and a lively pen, Marian Füssel delivers a feast of information, insight, and entertainment. – Tim Blanning, author of Frederick the Great: King of PrussiaFüssel lights up what we thought was a well-researched conflict. He brings to bear newly discovered writings of ordinary people, soldiers, civilians, pastors, tradesmen, aristocratic ladies, and ordinary women as they respond to the devastation around them. The war was seen as not only a military conflict but also a media event. A notably clear account of interlocking conflicts and the virtually simultaneous making of their memorialization. – Dorinda Outram, author of Four Fools in the Age of Reason: Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern GermanyAn exciting history of the Seven Years’ War as a global conflict, combining lucid analysis of the main events and their outcomes with sympathetic treatment of those caught up in the struggle. Particular attention is paid to how contemporaries perceived the complex interactions between the war’s many theaters and how the conflict’s expansive character changed how they saw the world. – Peter H. Wilson, author of Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500

Marian Füssel is chair professor of early modern history with special focus on the history of science at the University of Göttingen and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.

Brían Hanrahan is a writer, scholar, and broadcaster who has translated ten books from German to English.